The Furnished Room/I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself For Sympathy Page 1
In the short stories “The Furnished Room” and “I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy” it displays the emotions of both main characters bathing some type of mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency over women in there respected lives and how the desire the attention of individuals by there threatening and erratic behaviors. The central main characters that seem to be imprecise and imperfect in there own ways have some type of fixation on unachievable woman in each of their situations. Although some blame the breakup or disappearance from these women’s presence for there irrational decision making of suicide and criminal conduct. The individuals …show more content…
These characters can explain there depressions through there own experiences with overwhelming sadness like an empty hole or feeling of inadequacy. In “I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy” the character expresses “I am not at all afraid. I never am and that’s my problem. I feel sure they will not use their weapons. I keep driving and then, as we take a turn, as we take a turn, as we come to a railroad crossing” (The Seagull reader. Louise Eldritch. Page 152). Depression is a repulsive disease, and it progressively gets worse with everyday these main characters wake up to. This quote is important to the story, because this character is indicting that he just doesn’t care anyone to what people think of him or his actions. These characters could have been unhappy with there lifes and confess there emotions with just having a bad week. Which the character in “I’m …show more content…
Henry it talks about the struggles an individual faces when relocating to a near area, and how challenging it can be to adapt to this new area and meet all new people. Through reading this short story we can argue if the individual was already suffering from a mental illness before he made to choice to live in this big city versus feeling miserable after he finds the news of the death of this women in this room. Once In the room this indivual feels her presence, by the smell of her perfume, and his imaginations of this women begins to corrupt his mind. This rundown suite displays a human temperament and helps form a mood of uncertainty and paranormal next to the young man’s psychological loss of strength. As he worsens and regresses into the suicidal, the room appears an active contributor in his relapse. “He who had loved her best had tried to find her. He was sure that since her disappearance from home this great, water-girt city held her somewhere, but it was like a monstrous quicksand, shifting it’s particles, constantly with no foundation, it’s upper granules of today buried tomorrow in ooze and slime” (O. Henry pg 210) Why this quote is important, is because this individual is trying to is connect with this women to get with of the burden of moving to this new city. As the story progresses this individual is battling depression because he is not familiar with anyone. He moved to a city all by himself, but never experienced
In the short stories “The Furnished Room” and “I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy” it displays the emotions of both main characters bathing some type of mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency over women in there respected lives and how the desire the attention of individuals by there threatening and erratic behaviors. The central main characters that seem to be imprecise and imperfect in there own ways have some type of fixation on unachievable woman in each of their situations. Although some blame the breakup or disappearance from these women’s presence for there irrational decision making of suicide and criminal conduct. The individuals …show more content…
These characters can explain there depressions through there own experiences with overwhelming sadness like an empty hole or feeling of inadequacy. In “I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy” the character expresses “I am not at all afraid. I never am and that’s my problem. I feel sure they will not use their weapons. I keep driving and then, as we take a turn, as we take a turn, as we come to a railroad crossing” (The Seagull reader. Louise Eldritch. Page 152). Depression is a repulsive disease, and it progressively gets worse with everyday these main characters wake up to. This quote is important to the story, because this character is indicting that he just doesn’t care anyone to what people think of him or his actions. These characters could have been unhappy with there lifes and confess there emotions with just having a bad week. Which the character in “I’m …show more content…
Henry it talks about the struggles an individual faces when relocating to a near area, and how challenging it can be to adapt to this new area and meet all new people. Through reading this short story we can argue if the individual was already suffering from a mental illness before he made to choice to live in this big city versus feeling miserable after he finds the news of the death of this women in this room. Once In the room this indivual feels her presence, by the smell of her perfume, and his imaginations of this women begins to corrupt his mind. This rundown suite displays a human temperament and helps form a mood of uncertainty and paranormal next to the young man’s psychological loss of strength. As he worsens and regresses into the suicidal, the room appears an active contributor in his relapse. “He who had loved her best had tried to find her. He was sure that since her disappearance from home this great, water-girt city held her somewhere, but it was like a monstrous quicksand, shifting it’s particles, constantly with no foundation, it’s upper granules of today buried tomorrow in ooze and slime” (O. Henry pg 210) Why this quote is important, is because this individual is trying to is connect with this women to get with of the burden of moving to this new city. As the story progresses this individual is battling depression because he is not familiar with anyone. He moved to a city all by himself, but never experienced